Macpherson suggests that SNP should be open-minded about working with a Labour government in Westminster and should first seek further powers for Holyrood as well as international affairs participation
By recognising this, Macpherson believes, is a way to build “common ground” to gradually win full independence and further claimed that the transition period following any vote for Scotland to leave the UK could take “many years” or even “potentially decades”.
As a result, he wrote: “Any reckless, overly disruptive path to statehood would quickly make our quality of life in Scotland poorer. His comments came as Humza Yousaf, one of the three candidates to be the next SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, insisted independence could be achieved within five years.Secretary told the Sunday Mail: “It can be achieved within five years but that’s going to take persuasion and we’re going to have to give people a hope and a vision.”
He further writes that with no agreement coming from the UK Government, it is now the SNP's job to “build consensus and responsibly deliver more of a gradual process of further constitutional change for Scotland”.
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